woodpeckers

Posted By: annabanana on 2008-01-23
In Reply to: red-headed - jlynn

We have had downy woodpeckers, red-bellied woodpeckers, a red-headed woodpecker (only once and he was in a great hurry), yellow-bellied sapsuckers, Northern flickers (the ground-feeding woodpeckers) and now the hairy woodpecker. There are 7 woodpeckers in Indiana and now I have had 6 in my back yard! The hairy looks very similar to the downy, but much, much bigger. Here is a link you can copy and paste:

http://www.birds.cornell.edu/pfw/AboutBirdsandFeeding/woodpeckerIDtable.htm

Watching the birds and squirrels sure makes this job more enjoyable.

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Hey fellow bird watchers... - annabanana
- red tailed hawk and a pair of blue herons..sm - cat
  - know what they call blue herons in KY? - mdlfcrs
- Amazing . . . - MTness
  - Complaints about birds sm - Seasoned
    - PS-Mourning doves eat what chickadees spill & they say we have "pigeons." Jeez! - Anon me
- birds - elonmt
  - robins don't always leave for the winter - mdlfcrs
- Apparently downies are plentiful - mdlfcrs
  - My downies vary a lot in size, which confused - annabanana
    - guess I didn't realize they were that - mdlfcrs
- Watching birds - the original zzz
- red-headed - jlynn
  - Still trying to figure out what woodpeckers - mdlfcrs
    - red belly - jlynn
      - every time I see one I am pretty much stunned! - mdlfcrs
        male - jlynn
        what are they eating off your porch? - mdlfcrs
        I have a suet feeder - jlynn
        oh - I thought maybe you knew something - mdlfcrs
        I've seen the red bellies in my yard eat - MT4eight
        I think someone did tell me that they - mdlfcrs
  - woodpeckers - annabanana
    - I was watching a bird at work today. - Misha

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Still trying to figure out what woodpeckers
you have - one is probably the red-bellied because it has red head but because there was already a red-headed they named it because of a little blush of pink on its belly - it is big - looks more like a flicker. Do you have a pileated - with a red crest on top? I have red-belly, downy, and yellow-belly which I have to chase away because it makes holes in my Crimson King Maple.